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Across the country - and especially Idaho - meth use has fallen dramatically. But why?

By Daniel Walters

But today, those labs have, for the most part, disappeared. “We’ve seen the lab just fall of the table locally,” Major Ben Wolfinger of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office says. “Local dealers, they’re not cooking from their own meth. They’re bringing it from outside the area.

Forget meth, cocaine and heroin: Prescription drugs are the No. 1 killer in the Inland Northwest. And the epidemic shows no end.

By Nicholas Deshais

Lacey Jones was sliding. A sophomore at Whitworth, Jones had transferred from Washington State to play softball, the sport she loved. She was practicing sliding one day in February 2002, gliding over the grass again and again, when her metal cleats dug into the turf and her ankle popped.